Food! Glorious Food!! Food Auction!!

A food auction... I never heard of that before!  But Danny~ of Danny's Auctions in Foster, RI~ says they are "better than coupons"!  Let's try it!  Off hubby and I go for a 6 PM auction.  Walk around and do a preview.  Tables of cereal, cookies, candy,  snacks, cases of chips, sauces, pasta, all kinds of non-perishables.  This looks like fun!  I register and get us a bidder number.  A very entertaining group attends Danny's auctions!  We are hoping it is worth the trip.  Roaming an hour from home for groceries is a bit of a trip.  And it was well worth it!  

Cases of chips~ 12 bags of Wise Bar-B-Q Flavor, the size that sells for about $3 each, and 24 bags of Sweet Potato Chips, the ones that sell for about $1.69 each, ~for $3 a CASE!  We buy chips regularly so we actually covered the cost of gas with the money we saved on chips!  LOL!  There was also a freezer truck full of meats that you bid on and pick up after the auction.  They did walk around with an example of what was being auctioned with those things.  Whole pre-cooked roast beefs~ the kind you see the clerk at a deli go and unwrap when he needs another one~ for $2 a pound!  We bought 4 of those.  Bags of chicken wings.  Sirloin steak burgers.  Candy and cookies for $2  

a bag or box.  All name brand.  Ended up spending $200 and got all this~

You can't really tell, but the shopping bags are all overfull with food.  The 2 banana boxes are full of clementines~ $5 a box.  I don't see the boxes of meat here either.  Going back there tomorrow after the Plainville auction.  Two big auctions in one day!  My idea of a great day!!

Check out Danny's Auctions on Auctionzip or Facebook.  The food auction is the first Saturday of every month.  He also has regular miscellaneous auctions, antique auctions, car auctions, and... livestock auctions!  Someday I am going to go watch one of those.  From the photos it looks like something you only see on tv!    

New Auction Places! Food Auctions? Fabulous!!

Adventure awaits!!
Two new (to me) auction galleries!!  First is JWG at their new location in Plainville, Mass.  Found them on Auctionzip.  Like most of the ones I go to.  They showed a box of mixed loose beads and some pre-strung.  To me, it was like seeing a pirate's treasure chest.  I was on a quest to get those beads!  Dragged my son, Sam, off on my treasure hunt!  The auction was of the contents of an old farmhouse and its barn.  So at 10 AM was an auction of the barn contents and then at noon would be the house contents.  It turns out, the owners of the house had owned either a jewelry store or a jewelry repair business.  My treasure box was full of tiny brown paper envelopes that they had originally been placed in when purchased.  They held such promise!  And all kinds of findings and yards of tiny chains.  We arrived there in time to watch the end of the barn auction, do the house contents preview, and then find seats.  I wanted the beads and a box of linens stamped for embroidery.  That's all!  Prices were good.  The auctioneer was fair and entertaining.  His whole family works together there and they were all nice and friendly.  When they went to get the box of linens in amongst some other sewing things, it turned out it was a whole lot consisting of 2 shelves.  So I ended up with all this~

Plus a large plastic box of thread that didn't fit in the photo.  Oh~ all for $15!  Near the end of the auction, there was so much left that the auctioneer invited everyone to walk around and put anything that hadn't come up yet and you were interested in on a table to be auctioned.  Put up my box of beads.  Bid on the beads~ $30.  Someone else was interested in MY treasure?  Ended up with sewing lot, beads box, two boxes of generic jewelry and some money for Sam.  Pay the nice lady.  Go to pick up my stuff from the "holding area" and there were only 4 lots on my list.  I said something is missing.  My beads!  The nice man says, oh no~ they were supposed to be part of the sewing lot.  SO I got a huge sewing lot AND a box of beads that I thought I was payiing $30 for, for a GRAND total of just $15!  The original sewing lot price.  Time for the happy dance!  So I am going back there tomorrow morning for more goodies from the same estate.  I saw more beads... Come on, Sam!  Treasure awaits!!

Centuri Rocket Kit~ How Much? WOW!!

I really want to share something I learned about on ebay!  Hubby picked up an old wooden rocket glider kit at his mother's house one day.  His late dad never threw ANYTHING away!  So there are always assorted things moving from their house to ours.  Hubby was going to give the jet kit to our grandson.  I said that wouldn't happen because he wouldn't like it and it was mint in its original package!  Going up on ebay!  I took a couple photos and put a nice simple listing with it.  (sorry for upside down~ computer is very uncooperative tonight) Wooden jet kit by Centuri.  I later found out it is very rare and the buyer had never seen one on ebay before.  Started it at $5.99.  Figured it would be worth at least that to someone who loved them as a child.  Lots of views very quickly!  And a couple bids.  Then about 4 days into it someone bid $76.  I was thrilled!!  It was scheduled to end on a Sunday night.  I was online and keeping an eye on the auction.  I was SO excited and shocked!  I let out a little scream (I do that...) and my son asked what was wrong.  I couldn't find the words and kind of babbled in response until I could speak~ It sold for $256~!!  YAHOO!!  Ya never know what something will sell for on ebay!  and
You never know what you will find in Nana Potts' Cupboard!!

So Much Shopping... Too Little Time!!

Goodness!  Time does fly by sometimes!  It has been over 3 months since I have chatted with the world and I have missed it.  One computer bit the dust, taking all my photos with it... 
Hubby bought me a wonderful new desktop computer, but alas it has Windows 8 and I still haven't figured out how to edit photos~ following instructions doesn't work.  So I am trying a laptop again. 
I think that's better than letting another 3 months pass. 
The holidays have come and gone~ even Valentine's Day and my birthday! 

Going to many, MANY auctions!  I will start back in November with assorted auction reports and hopefully find time to get caught up.  Starting with back on Mickey Mouse's birthday!  I got a wonderful Mickey Mouse lot!  Cute group of Mickeys, but the main thing I wanted is the Mickey lunchbox~ Annette is on it!  Keeping up my supply of pixie dust.  Also got a box full of advertising premiums because I thought they looked like fun and thought they would sell well on ebay.   Not really, but I did make a few dollars on them.  I love the DuckTales plastic case with the candy in it.  I can't find anything out about it.  Google searches and asking friends who collect this kind of thing has not gotten me any answers.  Love Disney afternoon, so I am happy to keep it! 
The end of November~ Thanksgiving Sunday~ was another of Ryan Auctions awesome Vintage Clothing and Textile Auctions.  As always, Denise had an amazing array of treasures for us all to bid on.  I got a group of Hawaiian print dresses~ some made in Hawaii~ just because I liked the bright colors!  I always seem to forget to take photos...  Need a smart phone so it becomes an automatic action, but hubby isn't ready for it yet  :-p

Also a box lot of shirts, etc. because it has a gorgeous skirt made of barkcloth type fabric with huge red roses.  I might just use the fabric for something else or add it to my collection!              So that's November... that I remember...  As if I am going to remember where ALL this new stuff came from!                  M-I-C- See ya real soon!    K-E-Y- Why? Because I like you!!        M-O-U-S-E!!

 

 

Huge Wilmington Toy Auction!

 It was a totally amazing huge toy auction today in Wilmington.  Put on by Boston Auctions with our beloved Vinnie as the auctioneer!  This was their first vintage toy auction and it was better than any other one I have ever been to.  Everything from dolls~ Barbie, Shirley Temple, and Madame Alexander to name a few, to trains and car race tracks complete in their boxes.  Something for everyone~ especially us baby boomers looking to buy pieces of our childhood!

Just to give you an idea of the typical Wilmington set-up the first photo is across the front behind the auctioneer, but the covered carts aren't usually there~ they were up for auction today.  Second photo is some of the rows of tables that are to the right of the audience.  Third photo is the left with rows of tables in the opposite  direction   from the other side.  The quantity must be seen to be believed! 

Biggest sale of the day was a Barbie lot.  There were many of them~ dolls, cases, clothes, etc.  The one I thought looked interesting was a bunch of clothes, many rumpled, but there were many many accessories.   Who doesn't love Barbie's "stuff"?  She had, actually still has, it all!   So it was time for this rather messed up box of goodies.  I wasn't the only one who noticed it...  It started at $20, like many of the lots were started at, and it went higher and higher...  Finally ended at $350!!  The winning bidder just sat there like she was at a funeral.  I hate that.  I know everyone "plays" their own way, but come on, when you win it's cause for celebration!  And so tomorrow, or maybe later today I guess...  I will tell you what I won that gave me cause to celebrate!  And celebrate I do!  With a sitting happy dance!  Just ask Vinnie~ he kind of notices  :)  You want a clue?  I WAS celebrating Mickey Mouse's birthday!!

 

Taunton Grey Barn Auction!

Totally awesome haul at the Grey Barn Auction house in Taunton on Monday night!  You must visit here if you have a sense of adventure at auctions!  I have unfortunately heard this place as auctions that are the result of dumpster diving  :(  Not quite, but often stuff that you wonder why anyone would buy it.  But I know for a fact there are plenty of people who wonder why I buy what I do!  You roam all over a giant barn during preview and yet, you don't see most of what is put up for auction!  So when they held up a little old sewing case full of notions and they said "sewing stuff" my head did one of those swivels...  lucky I didn't get whiplash!  Anybody want this sewing stuff?  $2?  Pick me!  Pick me!!  Then a bag full of "sewing stuff"...  $2?   Mine!  All mine!!  Mint in package notions.  A fishing lure in its box.  An awesome map from 1967 with all the fish you could find in North America at the time.  A 1969 graduation tassel.   A fabulous vintage dress pattern that is on its way to a friend in CA who is sewing for Disneyland's Dapper Day...  and more and more...  All for the grand total of $4!!  And then the adrenaline rush with anticipation for what I will find!  Oooohhhh I do love this game!!  Now time for Wilmington and a huge antique toy auction.  Probably won't get anything but should be fun!  Vinnie's the auctioneer and that's always a great time!
Happy 84th Birthday Mickey and Minnie Mouse!! 

Sports Collectibles Show!?

Hi everybody!  Can't believe it's been so long since I decided to chat with the world!  I don't think I went anywhere in the month of October and unfortunately it took its toll on my disposition  :(   Now it seems, life is full of adventures again~  Hooray!  I even made my way to my sewing table for the first time in a couple years.

My first adventure after going basically nowhere for the month (well, I did see Frankenweenie twice!) was to a Sports Show.  The Greater Boston Sports Collectors Convention.  Yeah, me at a sports show...  Kind of like, well...  I think my sons have more interest in a visit to a fabric store with me than I have in sports.   I went because my son wanted to go see some of the celebrities.  And there were plenty scheduled.  Actually paid money to go in and look at balls...  walls of balls!  Mostly signed by baseball players.  All prices.  Saw a Walter Johnson for sale for $64,999!!  Always something like that to keep me paying attention.  But my adventure was looking for Mickey Mouse!  As always, I guess  :)  Very hard to find there.  But I did find him on one wall.  Also found a fabulous little wall of Lego figures!  And my favorite chat was with Gary Sohmers~ King of Pop Culture~ at his booth.  Always count on him to have some pixie dust to make me smile.  Turned out to be the highlight of my day as Gary had a Disney dream pin~ a tiny cast member silver pin that says DREAM on it~ stands for Disney Resort Experiences Are Magical!  So my journey into the world of sports ended with a little magic to bring home... as all adventures should!  Lots of auctions coming up~ tell you about some tomorrow!